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Why do they put so much pullout ads in the magazines?

I have to sit down and pull all this paper out so I can turn the pages. Its very anonnying to me. How about you? I have a stack of stuff to throw away before I can even start to read the magazine! Urmp!

Printing is expensive. Shipping heavy items like magazines is expensive. Advertising funds magazines. If it weren't for the ads, they'd be much more expensive. Compare the subscription prices of a magazine with no outside ads (Consumer Reports) with a similar ad-funded magazine. Advertising pays for more than half the cost of your magazine.

I read some place that each one of those cost like a penny to produce and it's worth spending that money because they end up actually getting a ton of people to sign up for things that way. It's cheap advertisement- annoying, but cheap.

Those stupid ads are the reason I don't subsribe to any magazines. I feel like half the price of the magazine goes to those ads, and who wants to buy ads?? By the time you pull them out, the magazine is so small, I feel jipped.